{"id":14497,"date":"2008-08-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20080805-02n"},"modified":"2008-08-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:00:00","slug":"world-cotton-production-expected-to-decline-in-200809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/world-cotton-production-expected-to-decline-in-200809\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cotton Production Expected to Decline in 2008\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>World cotton production is expected to decrease by 5% to 24.9 million tons in 2008\/09, due to declines in both area and yield. This projected decrease is driven by a fall of more than one million tons in U.S. production, to 3.1 million tons.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>World cotton mill use is expected to decline by 1% in 2008\/09 to 26.4 million tons, due to slower global economic growth and higher prices of cotton relative to polyester.<\/p>\n<p>World imports are expected to increase by 6% to 8.8 million tons in 2008\/09, driven by larger imports by China (Mainland). Exports from the United States, India and Brazil are expected to increase.<\/p>\n<p>World cotton stocks are forecast to decrease by 12% to 10.7 million tons in 2008\/09. The largest decline in stocks is expected to occur in the United States, where considerable supplies that accumulated during the previous two seasons will fuel exports.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretariat forecasts an increase in the season-average Cotlook A Index from 73 cents per pound in 2007\/08 to 83 cents per pound in 2008\/09 (the 95% confidence interval is between 69 and 97 cents per pound).<\/p>\n<p><center><img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20080805-02\/2008-08-05_ICAC.jpg\" align=\"center\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"2008-08-05_ICAC.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>World cotton production is expected to decrease by 5% to 24.9 million tons in 2008\/09, due to declines in both area and yield. This projected<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[386],"class_list":["post-14497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-international-cotton-advisory-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14497"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}